Gilles-François Boulduc
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Gilles-François Boulduc (born February 10, 1675 in Paris , † January 17, 1741 in Versailles ) was a French chemist.
Boulduc was the son of the pharmacist and demonstrator of chemistry at the Academie des Sciences Simon Boulduc (1652-1729). He trained as a pharmacist, studied Descartean physics with Pierre-Sylvain Régis and medicine with Saint-Yon at the Jardin du Roi, and from 1699 chemistry with his father at the Academie des Sciences. In 1695 he was accepted into the pharmacists' guild and from 1699 researched at the Academie des Sciences, where he became assistant chemist (Adjoint chimiste) in 1716 and associate chemist (Associé Chimiste) in 1727, succeeding François Petit . There he mainly analyzed organic substances and pharmaceuticals. Dissatisfied with the method of dry distillation, he investigated the use of different solvents and examined, for example, the differences between aqueous and alcoholic solutions of organic substances. Among other things, he dealt with laxatives (such as rhubarb), with various salts ( Seignette salt , magnesium sulfate (Epsom salt)) and analyzed mineral water sources. Like his father, he was a chemistry demonstrator at the Jardin du Roi.
He became a full member of the Academie des Sciences in 1727, but was too busy elsewhere to attend much of its meetings. From 1712 he was the king's first pharmacist (as well as, for example, from 1735 to 1742 the queen and 1705 to 1722 of Liselotte von der Pfalz) and secured this post for his fourteen-year-old son a year before his death.
From 1709 to 1711 he was in charge of the pharmacists' guild in Paris. In 1726 he became Échevin with the city of Paris. They supported the Prévôt des marchands (head of the merchants' guild).
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| SURNAME | Boulduc, Gilles-François |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1675 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 17, 1741 |
| Place of death | Versailles |